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No, sadly it is not. It is one of those incompatible with life scenarios too. I have heard that it is not uncommon in Vietnam due to agent orange. This baby just must have broken some woman's heart. With the number of things that can go wrong, it never ceases to amaze me that any healthy babies get born.

...looked them up hoping for something worthwhile, and I have never been so disappointed. what the fuck is this genre even? it's like all the creepy-pedo-douche stuff from the old hxc scene dumped into electronic beats. what in fuck.

That's when I got hit with the whammy. My son has cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis and autism. Last year he went through testing for coeliac, but I told him, "no more diseases!" Apparently he listened as we came out of that unscathed. But gees!

On the upside, he's a really funny kid. It breaks my heart to see some of the things he has to go through, but I wouldn't be without him for the world.

No. I don't think that factoid (if it's accurate) has anything to do with nonsensical claims about "legitimate rape". Just that a more of our sperm/eggs don't have all their chromosomes in order than we might expect.

So many things can go wrong during gastrulation and embryonic development, you are correct that most of these mistakes are spontaneously aborted by built in safeguards. Comparatively fewer make it full term and die shortly after being born. Defects like the one posted here happen very very early in the embryo's development, within the first month, so this person never had a chance.

I thought the best data they had (mind you, using the most sensitive tests available) suggested something like 70-80% of fertilized eggs ended in a miscarriage before the women would have been able to know she was pregnant, resulting in a period that was either just a bit late or oddly heavy. I'll have to look around and see if I can't get the study, but I think the actual number of pregnancies that end in miscarriage is a tad higher than 45%.

actually the whole process is thouroughly flawed, but mostly that just means that the zygote or some not-much-later stage just doesn’t work and gets flushed out. thus not much energy is lost for the mother, so it’s no problem for nature.

Flash reflecting off black hair is what is causing the grey hair. The small head size is probably due to one or both of the following; this baby was quite possibly terminated, so not fully grown. These defects are also often in combination with defects of the brain like microcephaly.

This reminds me of a book I ran across in the library when I was in college. Had pictures of babies with all sorts of deformities such as this and babies with one eye, incomplete nostrils, etc. I was both entranced and horrified flipping through it. But I did look through the entire book. I thought if I could look through every picture I could teach anyone since I was a special education major. I hardly thought about it again until I was pregnant with my first baby. Nightmares for nine months and then 3 times more. I was lucky. My heart hurts for those not so lucky.

well, since it's caused by what i think is agent orange, we can blame the American government for using it back in 'Nam? still think that was a bad idea because we hit ourselves with that stuff as well.

My brother and his wife adopted a baby girl. The baby's mother was an active crack addict throughout the entire pregnancy. The baby was born addicted to crack and was in the hospital for months with complications. She is now 3 years old and a normal healthy little princess. Goes to show the ridiculous world we live in I guess. A crack addict can give birth to a 'healthy' baby but others who do everything right can have some of the worst complications.